different between trot vs bolt
trot
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /t??t/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /t??t/
- Rhymes: -?t
Etymology 1
From Middle English trotten, from Old French trotter, troter (“to go, trot”), from Medieval Latin *trott?, *trot? (“to go”), from Frankish *trott?n (“to go, run”), from Proto-Germanic *trud?n?, *trudan?, *tradjan? (“to go, step, tread”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreh?- (“to run, escape”). Cognate with Old High German trott?n (“to run”), Modern German trotten (“to trot, plod”), Gothic ???????????????????????? (trudan, “to tread”), Old Norse troða (“to walk, tread”), Old English tredan (“to step, tread”). Doublet of tread.
Noun
trot (plural trots)
- (archaic, derogatory) An ugly old woman, a hag. [From 1362.]
- (chiefly of horses) A gait of a four-legged animal between walk and canter, a diagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together).
- 2000, Margaret H. Bonham, Introduction to: Dog Agility, page 14,
- Dogs have a variety of gaits. Most dogs have the walk, trot, pace, and gallop.
- 2008, Kenneth W. Hinchcliff, Andris J. Kaneps, Raymond J. Geor, Equine Exercise Physiology: The Science of Exercise in the Athletic Horse, Elsevier, page 154,
- The toelt is comfortable for the rider because the amplitude of the dorsoventral displacement is lower than at the trot. […] The slow trot is a two-beat symmetric diagonal gait. Among the normal variations of the trot of saddle horses, the speed of the gait increases from collected to extended trot.
- 2009, Gordon Wright, George H. Morris, Learning To Ride, Hunt, And Show, page 65,
- To assume the correct position for the posting trot, first walk, with the body inclined forward in a posting position. Then put the horse into a slow or sitting trot at six miles an hour. Do not post.
- 2000, Margaret H. Bonham, Introduction to: Dog Agility, page 14,
- A gait of a person or animal faster than a walk but slower than a run.
- A brisk journey or progression.
- We often take the car and have a trot down to the beach.
- In this lesson we'll have a quick trot through Chapter 3 before moving on to Chapter 4.
- A toddler. [From 1854.]
- 1855, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, 1869, The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Volume V: The Newcomes, Volume I, page 123,
- […] but Ethel romped with the little children — the rosy little trots — and took them on her knees, and told them a thousand stories.
- 1855, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, 1869, The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Volume V: The Newcomes, Volume I, page 123,
- (obsolete) A young animal. [From 1895.]
- (dance) A moderately rapid dance.
- (Australia, obsolete) A succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up.
- (Australia, New Zealand, with "good" or "bad") A run of luck or fortune.
- He?s had a good trot, but his luck will end soon.
- 1994, Noel Virtue, Sandspit Crossing, page 34,
- It was to be a hugely special occasion, for apart from the picture shows at the Majestic, there was usually nothing at all going on in Sandspit to make anyone think they were on a good trot living there.
- 2004, John Mosig, Ric Fallu, Australian Fish Farmer: A Practical Guide to Aquaculture, 2nd Edition, page 21,
- Should he or she be having a bad trot, the exchange rate will be higher than normal.
- (dated, slang, among students) Synonym of horse (illegitimate study aid)
- (informal, as 'the trots') Diarrhoea.
- He's got a bad case of the trots and has to keep running off to the toilet.
Synonyms
- (gait of an animal between walk and canter):
- (ugly old woman): See Thesaurus:old woman
- (gait of a person faster than a walk): jog
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
trot (third-person singular simple present trots, present participle trotting, simple past and past participle trotted)
- (intransitive) To move along briskly; specifically, to move at a pace between a walk and a run.
- I didn't want to miss my bus, so I trotted the last few hundred yards to the stop.
- The dog trotted along obediently by his master's side.
- 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xiv:
- I would trot ten or twelve miles each day, go into a cheap restaurant and eat my fill of bread, but would never be satisfied. During these wanderings I once hit on a vegetarian restaurant in Farringdon Street. The sight of it filled me with the same joy that a child feels on getting a thing after its own heart.
- c. 1920s-1930s, Charlotte Druitt Cole, Runaway Jane:
- They sent little Jane to the garden to play,
- But she opened the gate, and then trotted away
- Under the hawthorns and down the green lane,
- Bad little, mad little, runaway Jane!
- (intransitive, of a horse) To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.
- (transitive) To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.
Synonyms
- (to walk rapidly): jog, pace
- See also Thesaurus:walk, Thesaurus:run
Derived terms
- hot to trot
- strong enough to trot a mouse on
Translations
Etymology 2
Short for foxtrot, whose rhythms influenced the genre.
Noun
trot (uncountable)
- A genre of Korean pop music employing repetitive rhythm and vocal inflections.
Synonyms
- ppongjjak
Etymology 3
Noun
trot (plural trots)
- (derogatory, properly Trot) Clipping of Trotskyist.
References
Anagrams
- -tort, ROTT, Rott, TRTO, tort
French
Etymology
From Old French trot, troter, from Medieval Latin trottare, of Germanic origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?o/
Noun
trot m (plural trots)
- trot
Further reading
- “trot” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- tort
Scots
Etymology
From Middle English trotten, from Old French trotter, troter (“to go, trot”), from Medieval Latin *trott?, *trot? (“to go”), from Frankish *trott?n (“to go, run”), from Proto-Germanic *trud?n?, *trudan?, *tradjan? (“to go, step, tread”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreh?- (“to run, escape”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [tr?t], [trot]
Verb
trot (third-person singular present trots, present participle trottin, past trottit, past participle trottit)
- to move at a quick steady pace
- (of water) to flow rapidly and noisily, purl, ripple
Derived terms
- (Ulster) trottle-caur (“a low vehicle for moving hay”)
Noun
trot (plural trots)
- a short, quick pace
- the fall, angle, or run on a drain
Derived terms
- jeoparty trot (“a quick motion between running and walking”)
- job-trot (“a slow, monotonous or easy going pace, the settled routine or way of doing things”)
- short in the trot (“short-tempered”)
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *tr?t?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tró?t/
Noun
tr??t m anim
- drone (male bee)
Inflection
Further reading
- “trot”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
Torres Strait Creole
Etymology
From English throat.
Noun
trot
- throat
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bolt
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /b?lt/, /b??lt/, /b??lt/
- (US) IPA(key): /bo?lt/
- Rhymes: -??lt, -?lt
Etymology 1
From Middle English bolt, from Old English bolt, from Proto-Germanic *bultaz, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *b?eld- (“to knock, strike”). Compare Lithuanian beldu (“I knock”), baldas (“pole for striking”). Akin to Dutch and West Frisian bout, German Bolz or Bolzen, Danish bolt, Swedish bult, Icelandic bolti.
Noun
bolt (plural bolts)
- A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one end. It can be inserted into an unthreaded hole up to the head, with a nut then threaded on the other end; a heavy machine screw.
- A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism.
- A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides of a double door, to prevent the door(s) from being forced open.
- (military, mechanical engineering) A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.
- A small personal-armour-piercing missile for short-range use, or (in common usage though deprecated by experts) a short arrow, intended to be shot from a crossbow or a catapult.
- A lightning spark, i.e., a lightning bolt.
- A sudden event, action or emotion.
- 1994, Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus Chapter 2
- With a bolt of fright he remembered that there was no bathroom in the Hobhouse Room. He leapt along the corridor in a panic, stopping by the long-case clock at the end where he flattened himself against the wall.
- 1994, Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus Chapter 2
- A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth.
- (nautical) The standard linear measurement of canvas for use at sea: 39 yards.
- 24 March 1774 , Stamford Mercury - "Mr. Cole, Basket-maker...has lost near 300 boults of rods" https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000254/17740324/001/0001
- A sudden spring or start; a sudden leap aside.
- A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
- '1887, Chalres Reader and Compton Reade, Charles Reade, Dramatist, Novelist, Journalist: A Memoir
- This gentleman was so hopelessly involved that he contemplated a bolt to America — or anywhere.
- '1887, Chalres Reader and Compton Reade, Charles Reade, Dramatist, Novelist, Journalist: A Memoir
- (US, politics) A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
- An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
- 1594, Christopher Marlowe, Edward II, London: William Jones,[1]
- He shall to prison, and there die in boults.
- c. 1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act V, Scene 1,[2]
- Away with him to prison! Lay bolts enough upon him:
- 1594, Christopher Marlowe, Edward II, London: William Jones,[1]
- A burst of speed or efficiency.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- arrow
- dart
- nut
- screw
Verb
bolt (third-person singular simple present bolts, present participle bolting, simple past and past participle bolted)
- To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.
- To secure a door by locking or barring it.
- (intransitive) To flee, to depart, to accelerate suddenly.
- 1627, Michael Drayton, Nymphidia
- This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt, […] / And oft out of a bush doth bolt.
- 1627, Michael Drayton, Nymphidia
- (transitive) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).
- To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
- (intransitive) To escape.
- (intransitive, botany) Of a plant, to grow quickly; to go to seed.
- To swallow food without chewing it.
- To drink one's drink very quickly; to down a drink.
- (US, politics) To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.
- To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
Translations
Adverb
bolt (not comparable)
- Suddenly; straight; unbendingly.
- The soldiers stood bolt upright for inspection.
- [He] came bolt up against the heavy dragoon.
References
Etymology 2
From Middle English bulten, from Anglo-Norman buleter, Old French bulter (modern French bluter), from a Germanic source originally meaning "bag, pouch" cognate with Middle High German biuteln (“to sift”), from Proto-Germanic *buzdô (“beetle, grub, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *b??s- (“to move quickly”). Cognate with Dutch buidel.
Verb
bolt (third-person singular simple present bolts, present participle bolting, simple past and past participle bolted)
- To sift, especially through a cloth.
- To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.
- Graham flour is unbolted flour.
- To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
- (law) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Jacob to this entry?)
Derived terms
- bolt to the bran
- unbolted
Noun
bolt (plural bolts)
- A sieve, especially a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)
Anagrams
- blot, blót
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?b??l?d?]
- Homophone: bold
Etymology 1
From Low German bolt, from Middle Low German bolte, from Old Saxon bolt, from Proto-West Germanic *bolt.
Noun
bolt c (singular definite bolten, plural indefinite bolte)
- a bolt (threaded)
Derived terms
- bolte (verb)
Related terms
- skrue (screw or bolt)
Etymology 2
Verb
bolt (imperative bolt, present tense bolter, passive boltes, simple past and past participle bolta or boltet, present participle boltende)
- imperative of bolte
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian volta (“vault”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?bolt]
- Rhymes: -olt
Noun
bolt (plural boltok)
- shop, store (especially applied to relatively small shops in the countryside)
- Synonyms: üzlet, áruház, kereskedés, árus
- vault
- Synonyms: boltozat, boltív, bolthajtás
Declension
Hyponyms
- See also the compound words containing -bolt with the sense of a shop [store] below.
Derived terms
- bolti
- boltos
- boltozat
(Note: Most compounds with üzlet as an affix in the sense of ’shop, store’ can be expressed with bolt.)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From Low German bolt
Noun
bolt m (definite singular bolten, indefinite plural bolter, definite plural boltene)
- a bolt (threaded)
Derived terms
- bolte (verb)
Related terms
- skrue (screw or bolt)
Etymology 2
Verb
bolt
- imperative of bolte
References
- “bolt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Middle Norwegian boltr, from Middle Low German bolte.
Noun
bolt m (definite singular bolten, indefinite plural boltar, definite plural boltane)
- a bolt (threaded)
Derived terms
- bolte (verb)
Related terms
- skrue (screw or bolt)
References
- “bolt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *bolt.
Compare Lithuanian beldu (“I knock”), baldas (“pole for striking”). Akin to Dutch bout, German Bolz or Bolzen, Danish bolt, Icelandic bolti.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bolt/, [bo?t]
Noun
bolt m
- bolt
Declension
Descendants
- Middle English: bolt
- English: bolt
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